Pain from nerve regeneration and healing?

[MontagueMech]

Anyone been through this? It has been pretty severe at times. I’m used to ignoring pain but this is on a different level. Feels like the face was filleted open. Was hoping the body was past this stage

Thankfully I was able to get off most of the prescribed meds (dr approved it) and have since tried to not take pain killers.

This is not a complain or feel sorry for me thread. Just curious who all has experienced this.

[BrandonA]

Anyone been through this? It has been pretty severe at times. I’m used to ignoring pain but this is on a different level. Feels like the face was filleted open. Was hoping the body was past this stage

Thankfully I was able to get off most of the prescribed meds (dr approved it) and have since tried to not take pain killers.

This is not a complain or feel sorry for me thread. Just curious who all has experienced this.

Dealing with it now. When I broke my foot in half last Nov I severed the nerve to my big toe and index toe and damage the nerves to my middle toe. Like you said the pain comes and goes. the lower half of my foot is still numb though

[MontagueMech]

Dealing with it now. When I broke my foot in half last Nov I severed the nerve to my big toe and index toe and damage the nerves to my middle toe. Like you said the pain comes and goes. the lower half of my foot is still numb though

That does sound painful.

My face has felt like it’s on fire since June though thankfully that has lessened. A constant tingling sensation. And a subtle throb in the left temple turned into a disabling type pain I don’t know how to sum up. And now this wound level thing across my face to my chin. It’s where my face went numb beginning in June. Thankful to be healing but this is agony at times. Will be good to get past it all.

[BrandonA]

I went to a pain management specialist Monday to see what can be done. I’m gonna try this steroid cream to help stimulate the nerves and help with pain management. With 6 plates and 14 screws I have a feeling this is something that’s gonna be an ongoing deal

[BrandonA]

I went to a pain management specialist Monday to see what can be done. I’m gonna try this steroid cream to help stimulate the nerves and help with pain management. With 6 plates and 14 screws I have a feeling this is something that’s gonna be an ongoing deal

[Hogmauler]

I’m still dealing with nerve pain from the shingles. Thankfully I’m on the backside of it now. I understand not wanting to take pain med. my doc gave me some lyrica so I started takin it and it did lessen the pain; however, the side effect was constipation.
Get some pain meds on board if you need them. Be aware of side effects and treat those accordingly until your pain subsides. Basically take something to counteract the side effects.

[Evils1]

Nerve damage from the war. I have been on Butrans patch for 8 years or so. Most Dr.s don't like it but it has really helped.

[RifleBowPistol]

When they did the surgery to put my leg back together, they told me they had to cut a major nerve to do the surgery. Then told me, that nerves grow at 1 millionth of an inch a year. So I figured I would never feel anything in much of my left leg. That's not the way it went.

Within a month I was having crazy sensations from my left leg. Anytime there was some type of cloth touching certain areas of my left leg, it would feel like there was a cold liquid running down my leg, but there never was. Then at some point, starting around a month after the surgery, I started getting random sensations, randomly it would feel like I was getting shocked by a automotive ignition system. It felt like I was getting the crap knocked out of me. I think it would usually be three jolts in a row, when it would happen.

That stuff quit after about four months or so after the surgery. For years after the surgery, if the left side of my left leg, around my knee contacted any cloth, such as the cloth trim on the door panel of the car I owned at the time. It would cause my leg in that area, to itch, and burn. Just touching the door panel with my leg, it would burn and seem like I had a serious rope burn on the side of my leg, it would look like I had rope burn.

At the same time, I had no feeling in the left side of my leg, below my knee, down towards my ankle. One of my nephews, thought it was cool to kick the crap out of people's shins with his cowboy boots. He walked up to me and acted like he was going to kick my left leg, I just looked at him and laughed. I said go ahead, it won't hurt. So he kicked me hard, then again harder, then again, harder. I never felt anything. He looked at me like WOW! he is tough. He never tried kicking me again. That was probably 3 or 4 years after the accident.

Eventually the sensation in my left leg slowly came back, from the inside outwards. I discovered around 6 to 7 years after the accident, that if I pushed with a lot of force on the left side of my left leg, I could feel a dull sensation deep in the muscle tissue. Within a couple years, the feeling had returned to all of my left leg.

I never had pains that I knew were the result of nerves being damaged and then eventually healing. I had a lot of pains in my leg, I was sure most of them were the result of damage to the tibia plateau, and then the screws they ran into my left tibia. Those pains were very intense.

I have tried to ask doctors about the various sensations I experienced, during the time my leg was healing. They would not reply with any answer. I really wanted to understand the various sensations and pains I experienced, but found the doctors won't tell you anything. I assume they fear you might twist things around a sue them. That was not my purpose, I wanted info on how to reduce the pains I experienced and someone to tell me the crazy sensations I experienced were not anything to be concerned with.

To the best of my knowledge, the only cure for nerve damage, is time. You just have to learn to deal with whatever you experience. I only took pain killers for a couple weeks after the surgery. None of the pain killers they gave me did anything for the pain I experienced. They gave me two different dosages, neither helped at all, so I just quit taking them.

[flywise]

Had some steel strap go through my hand 30 years ago and cut nerves to pinky and ring finger. Could not feel either one for several years and when the feeling started coming back it was awful. Small splinter in the pinky felt like hot iron. Over about 15 years it slowly got better but still more painful than the other hand

[cva34]

Had both knees replaced in 2018..doc said there would be nerve damage due to how bad the were...They function perfectly in every way...But there is lots of tingeing (no pain)in skin and tissue below knees..But its not a really big deal......I not Griping just stating a fact...I would do it all again in a heartbeat if I had to..Surgery and recovery was no big deal...Uncomfortable for a few weeks YES ...But to walk and get around like I was 20 again was best thing I ever did for myself...